Deborah Fallows

Fallows grew up in both Minneapolis, Minnesota and Vermilion, Ohio.{{Cite web |url=https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/deborah-fallows/ |title=Deborah Fallows |publisher=USC Communication Leadership |access-date=2021-10-05}}

She graduated with a B.A. from Harvard University and received a Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from the University of Texas.

Fallows was the assistant dean of languages and linguistics at Georgetown University. She chose to be a stay at home mother after the birth of her second son. Fallows wrote of her experiences in her first book, A Mother's Work (1985).{{Cite news|last=Gardner|first=Marilyn|date=1985-10-12|title='A Mother's Work': Author Decided Hers is at Home|pages=51|work=Hartford Courant|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86544439/a-mothers-work-author-decided-hers/|access-date=2021-10-05}}

From 2012 to 2017, Fallows and her husband, James Fallows, flew their single-engine plane across America to visit small towns, which was the basis of their latest book, Our Towns (2018).{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/books/review/our-towns-james-deborah-fallows.html |title=What Two Writers Found When They Bought a Plane and Touched Down on Main Street, U.S.A. |first=Marc |last=Lacey |magazine=The New York Times Book Review |date=2018-06-12 |access-date=2021-10-05}} The book was made into an HBO documentary film in 2021.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/movies/our-towns-review.html |title='Our Towns' Review: Across America, Signs of Life |first=Ben |last=Kenigsberg |magazine=The New York Times Book Review |date=2021-04-13 |access-date=2021-10-05}}

Fallows and her husband started the Our Towns Civic Foundation in 2021.{{Cite web |url=http://dailyyonder.com/can-we-look-to-our-towns-to-get-beyond-red-states-and-blue-states/2021/04/16/ |title=Can We Look to 'Our Towns' to Get Beyond Red States and Blue States? |first=Anya |last=Slepyan |date=April 16, 2021 |website=The Daily Yonder |access-date=2021-10-05}}

With James Fallows she has two sons and five grandchildren.

• {{Cite book|last=Fallows|first=Deborah|title=A Mother's Work|date=1985|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-395-36218-1|language=en}}
• {{Cite book|last=Fallows|first=Deborah|title=Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language|date=2010|publisher=Bloomsbury USA|isbn=978-0-8027-7913-7|language=en}}{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/books/review/Downer-t.html |first=Lesley |last=Downer |title=Character Building |magazine=The New York Times Book Review |date=2010-09-24 |access-date=2021-10-05}}
• {{Cite book|last=Fallows|first=James M.|title=Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America|last2=Fallows|first2=Deborah|date=2018|publisher=Pantheon Books|isbn=978-1-101-87184-3|language=en|author-link=James Fallows}}

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